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"Clashes in Los Angeles between federal agents and people protesting immigration raids continued into a third day on Sunday as the National Guard arrived on orders from President Trump. Here is what happened on each day." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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New: The US ordered all embassies in striking distance of Iran (across Mid East and parts of E Europe / N Africa) to convene emergency action committees & send cables back to DC about what measures they are taking to mitigate risks. That led to today's departures for Iraq

US embassies going on altert, especially in Iraq nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/…

As with past seasons, happy to chat with any prospective poli sci job market candidates about materials and experiences on the market & in-job.

[Saudi FM] "Faisal bin Farhan expressed his condemnation of the blatant Israeli aggression against Iranian territory to [Iranian FM] Araghchi" alongside calls with Jordanian & Egyptian FM's. aawsat.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D…

Seems like the operative doctrine for Israel now is a region-wide "mowing of the lawn". The GCC should take note - we contended with a real strategic ceiling given US emphasis on maintaining Israeli QME since the 70s. With the events in Iran, it will only get worse now.

Needless to say, the United States should not get involved in Netanyahu's war of choice with Iran save to pressure Israel down the path of diplomacy.

Statement of the Co-Chairs of the United Nations High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution — the French Republic and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — and of the Co-Chairs of its

We would not be at this terrifying moment without Biden & his team. Emboldening Netanyahu beyond even Israelis’ expectations (in Gaza + Lebanon), abandoning hopes of a renewed nuclear deal & fracturing their voting coalition, a team that promised stability brought huge danger.

Still should not. Nobody who pushed for this has any inkling of what comes next.

The American public is overwhelmingly opposed to the U.S. waging war on Iran. And the Israeli Foreign Minister admitted yesterday that Israeli bombing had set the Iranian nuclear program back “at least 2 or 3 years.” So what made Trump recklessly decide to rush and bomb today?

Of course it was. These are just buildings. You can’t bomb away a technological capability. All this does is convince Iran it needs the nuclear deterrent it’s always been capable of acquiring.

For all of the talk of a redux of 2003, the real challenge to preventing or "restraining" something like these strikes is that there was never an effective coalition against a no-boots-on-the-ground GWOT approach to US foreign policy.

Chatted with Adam Vos of Lousiana considered about US-Iran relations. wwno.org/show/louisiana…

A quick look for Carnegie Endowment's Emissary on GCC (chiefly Qatar & Saudi) responses to the recent US-Israel-Iran fighting. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/…

The admin wants "the US to remain the world’s dominant military power; the dollar to remain the world’s central currency...; and regular inflows of foreign funds... primacy is not just to be maintained, but also monetized." Karthik Sankaran, Phenomenal World phenomenalworld.org/analysis/monet…

Building Humane Foreign Policy On Moral Outrage Read this excellent piece from Andrew Leber in The International Policy Journal internationalpolicy.org/publications/b…